Summary of phaedo In the remote Peloponnesian township of Phlius‚ Echecrates encounters Phaedo of Elis‚ one of the men present during Socrates’ final hours. Eager to hear the story from a first-hand source‚ Echecrates presses Phaedo to tell what happened. A number of Socrates’ friends were gathered in his cell‚ including his old friend Crito and two Pythagorean philosophers‚ Simmias and Cebes. The account begins with Socrates proposing that though suicide is wrong‚ a true philosopher should look
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ECONOMICS SUMMARY NOTES (From Rein‚ to you‚ prepared with loving care‚ but with scant concern for accuracy) 1. BUSINESS CYCLES The cycles from economic upswing (boom) to economic recession (Black et al.‚ Ch 19.3) A business cycle may or may not consist of the following 4 cycles (Roux): (i) Recovery Phase / Upswing • Building up of inventories / stocks in reaction to sales • Investment in capital goods (machinery‚ equipment) to satisfy increasing demand • An increase in employment • Greater
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The Catcher in the Rye Summary Holden Caulfield‚ the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye‚ begins with an authoritative statement that he does not intend the novel to serve as his life story. Currently in psychiatric care‚ this teenager recalls what happened to him last Christmas. This story forms the basis for his narrative. At the beginning of his story‚ Holden is a student at Pencey Prep School‚ irresponsible and immature. Having been expelled for failing four out of his five classes‚ Holden goes
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6/12/2013 Martha McCaskey Marco Rangel lEADERSHIP AND BUSINESS ETHICS The following is a summary of the case study which narrates the ethical problem that Martha McCaskey‚ faces during her work or a particular project she is heading. She has to decide between paying Devon (another consultant) for information she needs for her analysis on the Silicon 6 project‚ or abandon the project altogether to maintain the integrity of her company and in the process loose the recognition from her
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! EUTHANASIA! (Contemporary debates of applied ethics)! ! Summary of “In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and! Assisted Suicide” by Michael Tooley and! “A Case Against Euthanasia” by Daniel Callahan! ! Before I start summarising the two articles‚ I would like to put on the top of this work the most common description of the term “euthanasia”. So Euthanasia is: “the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. Origin: early 17th
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Shipbreaker Summary Set in a terrifying dystopian America where fossil fuels have run out and cities have been drowned‚ Shipbreaker takes place along the US Gulf Coast and centers around the life of a seventeen year old boy named Nailer‚ who is just one of the numerous teens working in crews to disassemble grounded oil tankers for their parts. Living a life of complete and utter poverty‚ Nailer works on the light crew scavenging for copper wiring and other light metals from the ships‚
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of his son. God comes first and offers to be the godfather‚ vowing that under His care‚ the man’s son would live a happy life. But when the man realizes that it was God‚ he rejects the offer and accuses God of neglecting the poor. Then the Devil crosses the man’s path and offers to be the godfather‚ claiming that he will give the child gold and all the joys of the mortal world. Realizing who he is speaking to‚ the man also turns down the Devil‚ calling him a trickster. Lastly‚ the man meets Death
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* Executive Summary In 2001 spirit makers ended a long standing volunteer policy against aggressive alcohol advertising (Steiner and Steiner‚ 2009). Since that time‚ there has been an unprecedented shift toward increased alcoholic advertisements in an effort to increase market share and raise profits. This shift brings into light the challenge alcoholic companies face in balancing their fiduciary duties to their shareholders and their corporate and social responsibility to society. This report
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MNB1501 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Business world & business management Entrepreneurship Establishing a business Business environment Corporate social responsibility Planning Organising Leading Controlling the management process Role of business in society Needs & need satisfaction Main economic systems Free market (Capitalism) Socialism Command ( Communism) Need-satisfying economy institutions of the market Business Government Non-profit Nature of business management
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Plot summary the birds Set in a small Cornish seaside town on December the third‚ there is a sudden change in weather from autumn to winter. A war veteran‚ Nat Hocken‚ living in the town and working part time for a farm owner notices a large number of birds behaving strangely along the peninsula where his family lives. He attributes this to the sudden arrival of winter. That night‚ he hears a tapping on his bedroom window and encounters a bird. This bird has only drawn blood on Nat’s hand‚ but as
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